News News stories 8 June 2024 Trump and Hitler: A Comparative Study in Lying Prof. Henk de Berg explores one of today's most controversial topics -- the similarities and dissimilarities between Trump and Hitler. 26 February 2024 Waiting for the flood Sean Williams turns to the pages of history and literature about the Wadden Sea – archipelagos along the coast of Northern Europe, stretching from the Netherlands to German and Denmark. 25 January 2024 Germany's colonial past Kieran Howard was awarded a research grant to carry out doctoral research into how contemporary German literature confronts the nation's colonial past. 21 December 2023 New collection of essays on Ernst Bloch by Henk de Berg Professor Henk de Berg publishes an edited collection of essays on Ernst Bloch, one of the most significant European thinkers and public intellectuals of the twentieth century. Nina and friend sitting on the banks of the Neckarwiese in Heidelberg, looking to die Alte Brücke & Altstadt. 14 November 2023 German Translation Competition 2023 Students of German in Years 12 and 13 in the UK are invited to submit their translation of the original short German text below. Get your entry in before midnight 26 November 2023. 11 August 2023 Winner of the Gibbons Prize: 'Make the most of your time at university' We are delighted that Rachael Norman was awarded the prestigious Gibbons Prize for the best performance among all first-class Arts and Humanities students. Sheffield in winter with Eleanor on the right (Photo: Sophie Adams) 8 June 2023 My First Year in Sheffield What was your First Year studying with us like ? Do you feel at home? What is Sheffield like as a city? We asked Eleanor Lawrence to look back and share her experience. 17 October 2022 Herbstwanderung 2022 This year our Deutscher Verein and Nederlandse Vereniging couldn’t wait to get out into Sheffield’s beautiful countryside! 1 June 2022 My years in Sheffield and Germany Sandeep Kaur looks back on her four years of studying German: "There is a high demand for German speakers". 29 March 2022 German Taster Session The psychologist Sigmund Freud was one of the greatest German-language thinkers of the twentieth century. Join us on 26 April 2022 for a session on Freud and find out what studying German is like. 11 March 2022 Literature competition 2022 Organised by Austrian lecturers from 10 different universities, writeAUT is a literature competition running across the UK and Ireland which is open to all German language university students. 5 January 2022 Our German language classes German language classes at Sheffield range from beginners to specialists. One on our language tutors, Franziska Auer from Austria, offers a taste of her activities and argues that 'play' is a crucial part of language learning. 19 November 2021 Relax: Have a Kaffee! Every week the MLTC German speaking team meet with students for two sessions of Kaffee und Kuchen. The formula is simple: grab a coffee (or any other drink), and join our chat in German. Search Erasmus exchanges Our Trier colleague, Dr Elisa Müller-Adams, pays a visit to Sheffield as part of the Erasmus Staff Mobility scheme and Josie Batchelor checks in from Eppstein. 26 October 2019 Herbstwanderung 2019 Take a beautiful Saturday in autumn, find a National Park on your doorstep, hop on a bus with a group of German students and staff and there you have it: our German Herbstwanderung. 12 October 2019 Live at the Proms Seán Williams, Lecturer in German and European Cultural History, can regularly be heard on BBC Radio 3. This summer, he presented a programme live at the Proms, just before Beethoven's 9th symphony. 21 September 2019 German for Enterprise In German for Enterprise students work with local businesses to put their German language and cultural skill into practice: they work with businesses to break into, or extend, their German speaking markets. 23 July 2019 Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹ Previous Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Current page 6
